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Why Crypto Could Be AI’s Payment Layer: BlackRock Sees Stablecoins Connecting Commerce and Compute
Matched: Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI
BlackRock's white paper "The Machine-Native Economy" argues that stablecoins, tokenized assets, and blockchain payment protocols could serve as financial infrastructure for AI agents that autonomously purchase data, services, and computing capacity. The report notes stablecoins exceeded $300 billion in market cap and $11 trillion in adjusted transaction volume in 2025. Emerging protocols from Coinbase, Stripe, Google, and Visa aim to enable machine-to-machine payments, though regulatory, technical, and standardization hurdles remain significant.